Innovator
Mark was at the forefront of the sustainable community movement in the 1990s, taking its concepts and creating frameworks that made it relevant to real projects (the Sustainability Matrix; The Eight Pillars of a Sustainable Community). He worked on many innovative projects, including the Olympic Village in Vancouver, which was declared by the US Green Building Council to be the most sustainable urban neighbourhood in the world after it received the highest LEED ND rating of any neighbourhood in history.
He served as a sustainability consultant to many communities and companies, including large American city mayors, the re-planning process of the Abu Dhabi Emirate as well as many small communities in Western North America. Mark ultimately won the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for his leadership in Canada on sustainable communities.
Mark led work for years around the creation of the concept of “Agricultural Urbanism,” to find productive ways to integrate new development and food systems. Agricultural Urbanism was declared by Andrés Duany to be one of the most important innovations in New Urbanism in the late 2000s. Mark coauthored the book, Agricultural Urbanism – published in 2010 by Green Frigate Books.
Mark led the intellectual work to create the concept of “Urban Magnets,” the core principles behind why Granville Island is one of the most interesting urban places in Canada but few have been able to replicate it. A book Mark coauthored with colleagues on Urban Magnets is before publishers at this time.
Mark then became fascinated with the connections between health and urban development, and has been pursuing leading work on these relationships with Universities and others. His New Monaco project has a mission of becoming the healthiest neighbourhood in Canada. His New Monaco Area Structure Plan won the top award for planning in Canada from the CIP in 2012.
Following a half decade in the development industry managing master planned projects, Mark became fascinated with why some places become major destinations and others do not. After studying many of the most successful destinations in Canada and the USA, he has invented Destination Theory, an equation of elements that great destinations have, that most places do not – a concept which has widespread application to the success of towns and real estate projects everywhere.
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Innovator
Mark was at the forefront of the sustainable community movement in the 1990s, taking its concepts and creating frameworks that made it relevant to real projects (the Sustainability Matrix; The Eight Pillars of a Sustainable Community). He worked on many innovative projects, including the Olympic Village in Vancouver, which was declared by the US Green Building Council to be the most sustainable urban neighbourhood in the world after it received the highest LEED ND rating of any neighbourhood in history.
He served as a sustainability consultant to many communities and companies, including large American city mayors, the re-planning process of the Abu Dhabi Emirate as well as many small communities in Western North America. Mark ultimately won the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for his leadership in Canada on sustainable communities.
Mark led work for years around the creation of the concept of “Agricultural Urbanism,” to find productive ways to integrate new development and food systems. Agricultural Urbanism was declared by Andrés Duany to be one of the most important innovations in New Urbanism in the late 2000s. Mark coauthored the book, Agricultural Urbanism – published in 2010 by Green Frigate Books.
Mark led the intellectual work to create the concept of “Urban Magnets,” the core principles behind why Granville Island is one of the most interesting urban places in Canada but few have been able to replicate it. A book Mark coauthored with colleagues on Urban Magnets is before publishers at this time.
Mark then became fascinated with the connections between health and urban development, and has been pursuing leading work on these relationships with Universities and others. His New Monaco project has a mission of becoming the healthiest neighbourhood in Canada. His New Monaco Area Structure Plan won the top award for planning in Canada from the CIP in 2012.
Following a half decade in the development industry managing master planned projects, Mark became fascinated with why some places become major destinations and others do not. After studying many of the most successful destinations in Canada and the USA, he has invented Destination Theory, an equation of elements that great destinations have, that most places do not – a concept which has widespread application to the success of towns and real estate projects everywhere.